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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

By : Rajesh Daswani
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Book Image

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

3 (1)
By: Rajesh Daswani

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud computing service provider in the world. Its foundational certification, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01), is the first step to fast-tracking your career in cloud computing. This certification will add value even to those in non-IT roles, including professionals from sales, legal, and finance who may be working with cloud computing or AWS projects. If you are a seasoned IT professional, this certification will make it easier for you to prepare for more technical certifications to progress up the AWS ladder and improve your career prospects. The book is divided into four parts. The first part focuses on the fundamentals of cloud computing and the AWS global infrastructure. The second part examines key AWS technology services, including compute, network, storage, and database services. The third part covers AWS security, the shared responsibility model, and several security tools. In the final part, you'll study the fundamentals of cloud economics and AWS pricing models and billing practices. Complete with exercises that highlight best practices for designing solutions, detailed use cases for each of the AWS services, quizzes, and two complete practice tests, this CLF-C01 exam study guide will help you gain the knowledge and hands-on experience necessary to ace the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud Concepts
5
Section 2: AWS Technologies
16
Section 3: AWS Security
18
Section 4: Billing and Pricing
20
Chapter 16: Mock Tests

Learning about archiving solutions with Amazon S3 Glacier

Earlier in this chapter, we introduced you to the Amazon S3 Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive storage classes. Amazon Glacier offers long-term storage at very a low cost and is intended to be used for archival storage. The architecture offers the same 99.999999999% (eleven 9s) of durability so that in the event of a major disaster, you can rest assured that your old archives will be available to recover if the need arises. The technology works differently from standard S3 storage. The archives need to be requested before you can access/download them, which involves a two-step process of first creating a retrieval job and then downloading your data once the job is complete.

This retrieval process can take some time and depends on your chosen retrieval options, as previously discussed. However, the upside to this delay in being able to access your data is that you get some of the cheapest storage options on the Amazon platform...